The
Supreme Court on Thursday heard some important cases during which the court
sought a response of the Delhi Police on a plea of former JNU student Umar
Khalid seeking bail in a UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the
riots here in February 2020.
Some
of the other important cases that were heard today are: -
SC
upheld the validity of amendment Acts of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Karnataka
which allowed bull-taming sport "Jallikattu", bullock-cart races and
buffalo racing sport "Kambala" respectively.
Controversial
film ‘The Kerala Story' will be now be screened in theatres of West Bengal as
the SC stayed the ban while asking the producer to put a disclaimer that the
movie is a “fictionalised version” and there was no authentic data to the claim
that 32,000 Hindu and Christian girls converted to Islam.
The
caste survey in Bihar will remain suspended as the SC declined to stay the
Patna High Court's interim order, saying it will have to examine whether the
state government was carrying out a census in the garb of survey.
SC
sought response of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the bail plea of former
Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in a money laundering case being probed by the
agency.
The
law of the land must be followed, SC said while expressing displeasure over the
Nagaland Assembly passing a resolution to repeal the municipal act and
resolving not to hold elections to the urban local bodies.
SC
directed a copy of the petition be served on the CBI, in which direction is sought
that the Bombay High Court continue monitoring the investigation into the
murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar.
SC
agreed to hear on Friday a plea challenging the Allahabad High Court order of
conducting a “scientific survey”, including carbon dating, to determine the age
of a ‘Shivling' which was said to have been found at the Gyanvapi mosque
complex in Varanasi.